Her smile was still serene and sweet,
His courtesy was free and gay;
Yet if by one the others name
In some unguarded hour was heard,
The heart they deemed so cold and tame
Would flutter like a captured bird.—Moncton Milnes.
A few days after the Derby, Anna and Drusilla sat in their private parlor at the hotel, waiting for the return of the General and Dick, who had gone out to keep an engagement with Francis Tredegar, but had promised to be back in time to take the ladies to the Tower.
Little Lenny was out with his nurse in the square.
The conversation between the two young women turned upon the gipsies.
“It is wonderful, their seeming powers of prophecy or second sight,” said Anna.